TITULADA: Poems

Author: elena minor Publisher: Noemi Press (2014) elena minor has described her work as "words of exploration" that "well up on their own terms—who can know what those truly are." Which brings to mind that perhaps loaded term, "indeterminacy"—meaning not only what Marjorie Perloff has in mind in her groundbreaking volume from the early '80s arguing against what she deemed a tired way of looking at the poetics of the day, but also John Cage, when he states that a piece of music can be "performed in substantially different ways." In elena minor's case, you'll find a plethora of ways she deploys her poems, not only linguistically (English and Spanish are on equal footing here), but also the various topographies she has at her disposal when arraying her words (and numbers!) on the page. TITULADA, then, is deliciously indeterminate in the best sense of the word. This is her artistic lineage. Someone asked me to characterize her work, and the phrases that percolated to my lips almost involun